InvitingFriendsAndPartners/TedsNotes3Sept04

 Date: Friday, September 03, 2004 
 Start Time: 1:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (3:00 Chicago)
 End Time: 2:55 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time 
 Dial-in Number: 1-858-300-3030   
 Participant Access Code: 12121 
 Friday September 3rd, 1:00pm PDT, 3:00pm CDT -- all are invited!  

• Laure intrigued by this as an organizing tool
• Julie wants to be an orientor, wants to learn the process, this is the piece she's been looking for in terms of capacity support to help individuals to grow the work
• Gerry heard a bit about the context at Ted's last night, like merging the different thing without any one of them being the containing framework
• Michael has never seen Ted actually do this stuff but has known him a while, experiment
• Ted is excited about letting go of the humanist movement as the container, but the HM gives the personal/social process as a gift to anyone doing all the work

• Michael asks: Is this call becoming the sucessor to the other call?
• Let's put off this organizing until the 2nd part

Personal Work

3. The Principle of Timely Action "Do not oppose a great force; retreat until it weakens, then advance with resolution."

• Julie: Simplify
• Gerry: This is scalable
• Michael: Individuals as meeting space (zones of peace)
• Ted found that the great force was the desire to make "it" happen before it was ready - when retreat happened, space was open for the advancement to happen which ended up with this call
• Julie says something about James and StreetWise? and kids doing technology (ask her about this later)
• Laure: Clean elections stuff makes really big change by getting special interests out - the great force is the unwillingness of current power structure to allow change - the work has then gone into minute, one-on-one bringing small groups into alignment - it looks like not doing anything, but actually doesn't stop, just goes small - this process of going small creates the weakening in the system - you then become the great force
• Laure to Julie says the great force is the lack of understanding of what the Commons is - so recommend to go small
• Michael story: GivingMarket was first conceived as stray thought that jumped out Google & eBay combining, then shifted to invitation to them to come together, then shifted away from them at all to a website, then how would I build it as not just one more competitor? and shift to not having to build the site because it would have to be owned so foundation, too hard so retreat further to dirt simple Chicago Bloggers directory idea, then to blogs already happening and existing structures to somehow work together where perhaps a single blogroll points to all of these participants, now starts to be do-able - might be rolled into something else maybe bigger

• Julie's front action front is to write a paper that gets to simple language to describe this commons or whatever "it" is

• Shall we meet again? Next Friday, same time.